Comments for Jonathan Brighthttp://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/bright
Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:38:06 +0000hourly1Comment on Getting ggplot2 to work with igraph by jonathanbrighthttp://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/bright/2015/12/07/getting-ggplot2-to-work-with-igraph/#comment-32
Mon, 14 Dec 2015 09:37:45 +0000http://jonathanbright.org/?p=301#comment-32Thanks! Much better than my effort 🙂
]]>Comment on Getting ggplot2 to work with igraph by Fr.http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/bright/2015/12/07/getting-ggplot2-to-work-with-igraph/#comment-31
Wed, 09 Dec 2015 00:59:36 +0000http://jonathanbright.org/?p=301#comment-31Some or all of the following might come in handy:

]]>Comment on Point size legends in matplotlib and basemap plots by Maximilian Haeusslerhttp://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/bright/2014/08/12/point-size-legends-in-matplotlib-and-basemap-plots/#comment-25
Fri, 17 Jul 2015 09:04:14 +0000http://jonathanbright.org/?p=212#comment-25Matplotlib really needs a function for this… it’s an extremely common use case. Many thanks!
]]>Comment on Measuring Ministerial Career Dynamics by jonathanbrighthttp://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/bright/2015/01/19/measuring-ministerial-career-dynamics/#comment-30
Mon, 20 Apr 2015 08:28:09 +0000http://jonathanbright.org/?p=258#comment-30I think that’s right – in social sciences the emphasis is still very much on the dataset as one large matrix which can be saved as a spreadsheet. We do teach some SQL where I am but it’s a bit hard to know where to fit it into the curriculum.

And, it would be absolutley brilliant if govt open data would feed directly into a political science database! Roll on open government data…

]]>Comment on Measuring Ministerial Career Dynamics by Darragh McCurraghhttp://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/bright/2015/01/19/measuring-ministerial-career-dynamics/#comment-29
Thu, 16 Apr 2015 13:27:31 +0000http://jonathanbright.org/?p=258#comment-29I am a bit surprised to learn -implicitly- that relational databases and their analytic potential seem to so far play only a minor role in sociological or political research. Though it dovetails with what I see in data mining in many large companies (Fortune 100 etc.) – almost no one “at the top” has an idea of what being able to “slice and dice” data could mean for their (business) intelligence. Was intrigued with the Bremen ParlGov database. I wonder how they feed their tables – wouldn’t it be brilliant if -a good firewall presupposed- government’s HR systems would directly feed into such a collaborative effort using a common format?
]]>Comment on Why do MOOC users meet face to face? by jonathanbrighthttp://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/bright/2014/05/29/why-do-mooc-users-meet-face-to-face/#comment-21
Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:35:12 +0000http://jonathanbright.org/?p=192#comment-21Sure! Just finalising a draft now in fact – will be with you soon 🙂
]]>Comment on Why do MOOC users meet face to face? by anil madduhttp://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/bright/2014/05/29/why-do-mooc-users-meet-face-to-face/#comment-20
Mon, 16 Mar 2015 05:03:51 +0000http://jonathanbright.org/?p=192#comment-20Interesting, can you mail me the paper : madduanil@gmail.com
]]>Comment on Measuring Ministerial Career Dynamics by Do more-important ministers survive for longer? | Conor Littlehttp://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/bright/2015/01/19/measuring-ministerial-career-dynamics/#comment-28
Thu, 22 Jan 2015 14:10:16 +0000http://jonathanbright.org/?p=258#comment-28[…] Edit: Jon also has a post on this article over at his website. […]
]]>Comment on Point size legends in matplotlib and basemap plots by I’ll see what you want me to see! | Fact-checking for Journalistshttp://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/bright/2014/08/12/point-size-legends-in-matplotlib-and-basemap-plots/#comment-24
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 22:03:13 +0000http://jonathanbright.org/?p=212#comment-24[…] Source […]
]]>Comment on Measuring Online News Consumption by jonathanbrighthttp://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/bright/2014/11/10/measuring-online-news-consumption/#comment-27
Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:31:50 +0000http://jonathanbright.org/?p=253#comment-27Yes, though I’d venture that some of the problems/conclusions apply to lots of different markets
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